Erik, a lecturer in architecture, inherits his father’s large old house in Hellerup, north of Copenhagen. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sweden
When a Man Comes Home AKA En mand kommer hjem (2007) Thomas Vinterberg, Oliver Møller-Knauer, Ronja Mannov Olesen, Helene Reingaard Neumann
A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town’s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Read More »
Don’s Plum (2001) R.D. Robb, Amber Benson, Scott Bloom, Kevin Connolly
A group of Los Angeles teenagers meet every day at their local diner Read More »
The Nurtull Gang AKA Norrtullsligan (1923) Per Lindberg, Tora Teje, Inga Tidblad, Renée Björling
About a group of office girls hardships in the male world set in 1907. Read More »
Blushing Charlie AKA Lyckliga skitar (1970) Vilgot Sjöman, Bernt Lundquist, Solveig Ternström, Tomas Bolme
A bachelor truck driver meet a pregnant woman. She moves in with him. Read More »
Frostbiten (2006) Anders Banke, Petra Nielsen, Carl-Åke Eriksson, Grete Havnesköld
After Annika, a medical doctor, gets work at the local hospital, she and her 17-year old daughter Saga Read More »
The Strongest AKA Den starkaste (1929) Axel Lindblom, Alf Sjöberg, Anders Henrikson, Bengt Djurberg, Gun Holmqvist
Skipper Larsen and his assistant Ole, are planning the season’s seal and bear-hunting trip to Spetzbergen with the ship “Viking”. Read More »
Elvira Madigan (1967) Bo Widerberg, Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren, Lennart Malmer
Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. Read More »
To Joy AKA Till glädje (1950) Ingmar Bergman, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
Stig, a visiting soloist to a small Swedish orchestra, marries fellow musician Martha Read More »
The Girl from the Third Row AKA Flickan från tredje raden (1949) Hasse Ekman, Hilda Borgström, Gunnar Olsson, Sigge Fürst
Is man’s existence really meaningful and hopeful? As a reply to Ingmar Bergman’s Fängelse (1949), this movie claims that it is. Read More »
Jazz Boy AKA Jazzgossen (1958) Maj-Britt Nilsson, Hasse Ekman, Elof Ahrle
The rich young man Teddy Anker invests his money in the theater in the beginning of the 1920s. Read More »
The Girls AKA Flickorna (1968) Mai Zetterling, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom
Three actresses prepare to go on the road in a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes’ classic comic play about women and war. Read More »
One Summer of Happiness AKA Hon dansade en sommar (1951) Arne Mattsson, Edvin Adolphson, Ulla Jacobsson, John Elfström
After graduating from high school 19 year old Göran goes to his uncle Anders’s farm in the countryside for recreation. Read More »
Summer Interlude AKA Sommarlek (1951) Ingmar Bergman, Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
While waiting for the night rehearsal of the ballet Swan Lake, the lonely twenty-eight year-old ballerina Read More »
House of Angels AKA Änglagård (1992) Colin Nutley, Helena Bergström, Rikard Wolff, Sven Wollter
A small village in Västergötland, Sweden. Everything is turned upside-down when the local loner dies Read More »